SCIENCE FRIDAY GAMES

How Big is Our Universe
Scales of the Universe

Elementary Games from PhET--University of Colorado

Click on the games: GRAVITY AND ORBITS, State of Matter, Food and Exercise. You should just be able to click on the icons below. If you have trouble with the icons below, then use the link above and follow these instructions:
Then click on RUN
When the Java message comes up, CLICK the LATER button.
CLICK RUN NOW

PUPPET POWER--SciGirls Activity

GRAVITY AND ORBITS GAME

On Tuesday morning between 1 and 2 a.m. we'll have a lunar eclipse.
See if you can find how that might happen.
Be sure to show the moon, earth, and sun t
o see an illustration of how we all move through space!

Click to Run

STATES OF MATTER GAME

Pay attention to what impacts the movement of atoms
(temperature, pressure) See which states move faster.

Click to Run

DENSITY GAME

Why do objects like wood float in water?
Does it depend on size?
Create a custom object to explore the effects
of mass and volume on density.
Can you discover the relationship?
Use the scale to measure the
mass of an object,
then hold the object under water
to measure its volume.
Can you identify all the mystery objects?

SCALES OF THE UNIVERSE
This site makes Powers of 10 come alive as you can see how it relates to our world!

Scholastic Study Jams--Adaptations

Project WILD

Power My Learning
How to Use Google Sky

Google Sky

Exploring the Sky: Telescope Video

Gravity and Orbits Simulation Activity

Bioluminescence Plays a Role in the Hunt for the Giant Squid

Check Out These Bioliumiescent Predators

Manatees Are Protected

What Are Animals Thinking? From NOVA Science Now (PBS) 53.37

Watch What Are Animals Thinking? on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.

How Smart Are Animals? NOVA Science Now (PBS) 51.37

See the World from the International Space Station! (3:49)

See the Northern Lights from the International Space Station

Solar System Song for Kids
You could create something like this!

FIELD TRIP RESEARCH

South Dakota State Library World Book STUDENT Link
http://destiny.rcas.org/common/servlet/presenthomeform.do;jsessionid=E4CD7917D78C5AB9C2A002779966E4ED?l2m=Home&tm=Home&l2m=Home

Wind Cave National Park

SCIENCE FRIDAY: Science in the News
New Species of Monkey Discovered!
Robot Cheetah Runs Faster Than Usain Bolt
New Robotics Help People Walk Again
Guatemala Volcano Erupts
Curiosity's Photo Shoot of Itself
Best Video Yet of Curiosity: Sept 13
PLANTS
Photosynthesis diagram/worksheet

DISEASE DETECTIVE!
Disease Detective
Can you identify the cause of an infectious outbreak at a campground by interviewing a group of campers?
You will have to determine importance as you read.
Good luck!

Animal Classification

Bats That Use Buildings Identification

Bat Monitoring in South Dakota

PLANT INFORMATION
Plant Unit
Hydroponic Home Experiment from Smithsonian Institute's Lemelson Center for STEM

MOON INFORMATION

Phases of the Moon Printable Calendar by Month

Click to Run

Video Explaining What Causes the Phases of the Moon--Great in Depth Video from Wonderville

Neil Armstrong and footage of first moon landing

Neil's Story of Lunar Landing with Videos

Simulation of all Moon Phases....shows Left Is Leaving...

Six Minute Phases of the Moon Video

Phases of the Moon Explained with Diagram from Moon Connection
Phases of the Moon August 2012

Uncle Percy's Adventures in Space!
This site features episodes for each of the eight planets, the sun, the moon, and Pluto. Workbook activities that address standards are included.

Mars from Uncle Percy

Curiosity's 7 Minutes of Terror

If you don't think science is cool, check out this video!

Video Animation of Curiosity's Landing

Curiosity Has Landed--Watch the JPL NASA Scientists Hair Raising 7 Minutes

Listen to the First Interplanetary Song played from Mars to Earth! Will.i.am's new song, Reach for the Stars: Mars Edition

Follow Curiosity
MARS Sites for Teachers

CURIOSITY UPDATE

More Mars Info from NASA and JPL
MARS for Kids from NASA's Fun Zone

Is There Life on MARS?
Nova Movie online--53 minutes

Meteorites from Mars
Getting to Mars
Mars Activities
International Space Station: Earth Observation Photography

MARIA's COMET--ASTRONOMY LESSON

Bat Management Plan in South Dakota

Bat Information Little Brown Bat in Eastern South Dakota

What Can Be Seen At Ocean Depths

Glaciers Moving Quickly in Arctic

Meteorites from Antarctica

NSTA Resources for Teachers

Here we go

SCIENCE FRIDAY!

LABTV
Camouflauge Video

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Teachers Domain from PBS
Periodic Table of the Elements from Web Elements

STOP for Science--Science Topic Outreach Posters from Chandra Observatory

Elementary School Simulations from PhET--University of Colorado

Online Visual of Atomic Size by Electon Orbitals

Brain Pop--Atoms (subscription site for elementary)
__http://www.brainpop.com/science/matterandchemistry/atoms/__

Brain Pop--Atomic Structure

The Human Accelerator from Jefferson Lab
This site incorporates math: decimals, fractions, percentages, and graphing

Cool Jobs in Science
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=atoms&gallery=1&media=video&page=3

STEM for GIRLS

Periodic Table Video from Discovery Channel
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/29400-assignment-discovery-periodic-table-video.htm

Elements, Compounds, Mixtures From Discovery Channel on How Stuff Works
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/29395-assignment-discovery-elements-compounds-and-mixtures-video.htm

Chem 4 Kids
__http://www.chem4kids.com/__

NOVA Atom Video on How Stuff Works
__http://videos.howstuffworks.com/wgbh-nova/13616-amazing-atoms-video.htm__

Kinesthetic Sculpture Shows Energy Transfer (9 min)

Science and Solar System 101

Quarked: Adventures in the Subatomic Universe
www.quarked.org

Quarked: Theme 1: How Small is Small Lessons
http://www.quarked.org/parents/theme1.html
This page contains lessons for grades K-8 with accompanying videos and activities for students to make meaning of concepts in the subatomic world.

Scale of the Universe and Subatomic Universe
Scale 2
http://htwins.net/scale2/?bordercolor=white
Scale 1
This is very similar to Scale 2 but easier to navigate certain parts.
http://htwins.net/scale/

The Molecularium
http://www.molecularium.com/

Nanospace from Molecularium
http://nanospace.molecularium.com/

Water Cycle

Peep and the Big Wide World
http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/

Science Net Links

FIREFIGHTERS
Smoke Jumper Video Clip

Rapid CIty Police and Firefighters Save the Day for a Vacational Family--featured on Travel Channel

EARTH DAY NEWS
Jane Goodall Webinar

Elephants of Sumatra

Wolves of Yellowstone

WAANGAARI MAATHAI's GREENBELT MOVING RESTORES AFRICA

Geography Awareness Week--Look at your own Econsystem! From Science Net Links
Earth Day News Articles of Interest

ANTARCTICA
Short 1 Minute Video Clip of Antarctica from National Geographic

Palmer Station Webcam

Palmer Station Two Minute Walking Tour

Palmer Station NASA Satellite Image

Funky Two Minute Video of Palmer Station

Photos of New Species in Borneo

Check out the frogs, slugs, and stick bugs!

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

Check out the new and improved photographs from this observatory, revealed to us for the first time!

LIFE SCIENCE

BIOMES

Biomes Video Movie with Quiz

Discovery Channel Biome Video

World Biomes from Kids Do Ecology
Blue Planet's Biome Website
NASA--Mission Biomes

Teacher Biome Info

Teacher Domain with worksheets, video clips, lesson ideas

EARTH SCIENCE

Volcano Movie from NOVA--53 minutes

Underneath the Arctic Ice
Go 3 miles underneath the Arctic Ice to see strange new life in our oceans. 8 minute video

ASTRONOMY

40 Cent Solar System Model Showing Scale: Earth, Moon, Mars

Space Sheets and Crafts from Busy Bee

Moon Rise Craft

Solar System Mini Books for Children
Scale Model for Kids--Simple

Solar System Lithograph from NASA

Interactive Tour of the Solar System from Nova

THE SUN
Nova Movie online--53 minutes
Oreo Moon Phases from Paper Plate Education
Steve Spangler's Phases of the Moon Chart

NASA's Imagine the Universe!

NASA Space Place

NASA's Kid's Club

NASA Missions

NASA Television

Kid's Astronomy

Star Child

Canadian Astronomy Education

Helium: Astronomy Science Projects for Elementary School Students

Lunar and Planetary Institute - Education

Scales of the Universe

Interactive Comet Animation

Pacific Science Center - Astro Adventures

Online video: In the Shadow of the Moon -

In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and very possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.

Curiosity's 7 Minutes of Terror

PhET Simulator Site

OMG Space

Hubble Site

Earth/Sun/Moon/Space Station Orbit Simulation from PhET

Planet Size and Comparison Activity from National Geographic Education

Lunar Activity

The World's Deepest Underwater Volcano is Caught on Film--From BBC News

The Dynamic Earth: NASA Observes Our Ever Changing Planet

Our Home: NASA's Earth From Space

Discover the Role of Water in our Lives From Project WET

Your Chance to Go to MARS
[[#mce_temp_url#|Mars Rover Certificate]]

Pine Beetle Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLGyyafm9E
SDPBS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRSR5L5e28g&feature=related
BC pine beetle info

VOLCANOES and EARTHQUAKES

Icelandic Volcano

USGS: This Dynamic Earth-The Story of Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics from American Natural History Museum Fossil Pangea Activity

Paleo Map Project

Pangea Flip Book Activity

Plate Tectonics Tennis Ball Globe Activity

Plate Tectonics Simplified Map

Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes from How Stuff Works-Video

PBS: NOVA's Volcano's Deadly Warning

PBS Video of Volcanoes

Volcanic Activity of Mt. Erubus from NASA's Earth Observatory

Ring of Fire from World Atlas

USGS's Information On Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics, and the Ring of Fire

USGS Map of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and the Ring of Fire

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Earth Day: A PBS Activity Pack

The GREEN Town

When Greenburg, Kansas was flattened by a tornado in 2007, it seemed like the end. But rebuilding what is being billed as "the greenest town in rural America" has given it new life. Check out some fascinating ways this community is using energy!

Fresh Water Video: Aquifers Explained

Global Change: A USGS EARTH SCIENCE UNIT

BBC Travels the World to See Climate Change

Musical Plates: A Study of Plate Tectonics

American Museum of Natural History's Science Links Page

Earth Magazine's Online Videocasts

NOAA RESEARCH WEBSITE

Geography Dictionary and Glossary

HOT CHALK DIGITAL REFERENCE SITE

Water Purification in Singapore

How's the Weather?: A PBS Activity Pack

ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Auroras: Paintings in the Sky--from the Exploratorium

Water Sense Kids

This site from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contains information about water usage, tips on how to conserve water, and includes some fun games!